--- title: Or till some knight should seek of him leave to joust with another,… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics description: Or till some knight should seek of him leave to joust with another, that they might set their lives in jeopardy, one against another, as fortune might favour them. Who acts: custom, ancestors, fortune. 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Weston, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (custom, ancestors, fortune), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66084:1:59 # text = Or till some knight should seek of him leave to joust with another, that they might set their lives in jeopardy, one against another, as fortune might favour them. 1 Or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 till till ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 4 det _ _ 4 knight knight NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 5 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 seek seek VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 of of SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 leave leave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 joust joust VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 19 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 lives life NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 jeopardy jeopardy NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 appos _ _ 25 against against ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 as as SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 30 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 favour favour VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 32 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **seek** | should | | | | | till some knight | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **leave** | present | custom | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **joust** | to-infinitive | custom *not said here* | | | | | with another | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with another=Co-Agent | | 4 | **set** | might | ancestors *= ancestor* | ancestors's lives | | jeopardy | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent life=Theme in jeopardy=Destination | | 5 | **favour** | might | fortune | ancestors *= ancestor* | | | | | tree rules | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Project Gutenberg book 66084 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/1/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/1/60/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/1/)